112 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



ARTICLE III. 



Section I. IN elections by the Citizens, every freeman of the age of 

 twenty-one years, having resided in the State two years next before the 

 election, and within that time paid a State or County tax, which shall 

 have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy 

 the rights of an elector : Provided, that the sons of persons qualified as 

 aforesaid, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years, shall 

 be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid taxes. 



Section II. All elections shall be by Ballot, except those by persons 

 in their representative capacities, who shall vote VIVA voce. 



Section III. Electors shall in all cases, except Treason, Felony and 

 breach or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their 

 attendance on elections and in going to and returning from them. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Section I. THE House of Eepresentatives shall have the sole power 

 of impeaching. 



Section II. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When 

 sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath or af&rmation. 

 No person shall be convicted, without the concurrence of two-thirds of 

 the members present. 



Section III. The Governor, and all other civil officers, under this 

 commonwealth, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in 

 office: But judgment, in such cases, shall not extend further than to re- 

 moval from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honour, 

 trust, or profit, under this commonwealth : The party, whether convicted 

 or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment, 

 and punishment, according to law. 



ARTICLE V. 



Section I, THE Judicial power of this commonwealth shall be vested 

 in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol 

 Delivery, in a Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court, Register's Court, 

 and a Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for each county, in Justices 

 of the Peace, and in such other Courts as the Legislature may, from 

 time to time, establish. 



Section II. The Judges of the Supreme Court and of the several 

 Courts of Common Pleas shall hold their offices during good behaviour : 

 But for any reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground of 

 impeachment, the Governor may remove any of them, on the address of 

 two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature. The Judges of the Su- 



